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Cycle of pain

Do you guys notice a cycle of pain when it comes to lupus symptoms?? I have noticed I can go about 2 days full force with minimal pain and symptoms. At the end of the second day and the third day- I notice the extreme fatigue, joint pain (throbbing/burning), and aching. THEN- on the third day my body crashes! Sometimes meaning sleeping for 3 hours after work and going to bed early. Then I wake up the next day and I am good for a couple of days again. I have really noticed that my body falls into this cycle. Does anyone else experience this?? I can almost predict when my body will crash!

welcome to WHL! I definately have a cycle to my everyday symptoms (fatigue, insomnia, joint aches, rashes, etc). There are actually 2 cycles I find. The first is hormonal, more symptoms about a week or 2 before my female friend comes around. The second seems to be my schedule. I work M-F 9-5. If I am home the weekend before the work week, I am usually fine until Weds/Thurs or so and then I am more achy, fatigued then the beginning of the week, pretty much spend all day saturday resting and regaining energy and sunday I catch up with my personal life (laundry, cleaning, etc) or try to meet friends. By Weds/Thurs I am exhausted again. If I am busy running around the weekend before work (like this week) I am already exhausted on Monday, can't sleep well end up resting that night at home and Tues and Weds are low key. By Friday, I will be beat. When I get home from dog walking on Friday nights I usually will not go out that night and am so exhausted that I can't sleep till 2 or so and then the Saturday sleep ins start over again. It's quite frustrating, and I really try to eat well and excersize and rest (as I am up way past my bedtime typing this). Those things seem to help me break my cycle.
Sandy

Sandy

As long as this body works, I am going to enjoy life to the fullest for each second of every moment that I can.

I dont know if my neuropathy is a separate disease or if it is lupus related but it always comes on in may and then after a few months subsides and then the real fun begins with the lupus symptoms. the neuropathy and the lupus never exist symotaniously. thats why i think they are different. but my pattern is arthritis one night before neuropathy and then neuropthy for a few months and then fibromyalgia and migraine bouts for a few months usually with my periods or an infection. interesting how summer always brings it on. I am leaving vegas in june and moving to oregon for that reason.

i take methotrexate, and this is how my schedule goes...my shot on Monday, Tuesday is horrible, Wed Thrs and Fri are usually pretty good, Saturday and Sunday i start the downward slide and everything starts over on monday. one thing that i have noticed is that a flare usually takes me a couple of days to get over....the fatigue and achiness lingers after the flare is over.

Isn't that wild how we all have cycles our body goes through!! Crazy! On the days I crash- I could sleep 20 plus hours! Seems like no matter how much sleep I get- its not enough! It amazes me how I can feel so horrible one night- this last Monday night I was hurting so bad and felt so horrible I couldn't move out of the recliner but then today- a mere two days later...I am pretty good! That is so wild to me!! I wish I could figure out what if anything I am doing on those bad days to avoid!!! Wouldn't that be great!!